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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias
Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
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Identification, Screening and Stereotyping in Labour Market Discrimination
Vendrik, Maarten; Schwieren, Christiane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping of people, and hence less discrimination; (ii …
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Fostering and Measuring Skills: Interventions That Improve Character and Cognition
Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
-term evaluations of adolescent interventions, but workplace-based programs that teach character skills are promising. The common … feature of successful interventions across all stages of the life cycle through adulthood is that they promote attachment and … provide a secure base for exploration and learning for the child. Successful interventions emulate the mentoring environments …
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Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success
Kautz, Tim; Heckman, James J.; Diris, Ron; ter Weel, Bas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
-term evaluations of adolescent interventions, but workplace-based programs that teach character skills are promising. The common … feature of successful interventions across all stages of the life cycle through adulthood is that they promote attachment and … provide a secure base for exploration and learning for the child. Successful interventions emulate the mentoring environments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105056